It is sensible that our president should "enforce laws that are on the books" as president Obama's spokesperson has said. Alas, it is a deception. It is long established e.g. that men were waterboarded while U.S. custody, that waterboarding is torture and that torture is a crime. Yet this administration has made no move to prosecute or extradite torturers.

The present danger is not only that this administration will create "two kinds of marriage" as justice Ginsburg warns. It is also that this administration has created two kinds of citizen: those who are answerable to the law, and then the C.I.A..